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The Prophets Advice On Having a Clean Heart
A narration which contains precious advice given from the Prophet ﷺ to Anas Ibn Malik (ra) about waking up and sleeping grudge-free.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Alhamdulillah wa salatu wassalamu ala rasulullah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala. So inshallah tonight I wanted to talk about really one of the most beautiful narrations that you find that narrate the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam giving special advice to one of his companions, especially when the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam is talking to one of the younger companions, someone like Anas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu or Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhuma or others. They're really special hadith. They contain many treasures and the nature of the delivery also is a lesson in and of itself. Now this narration that I'm going to share, which is narrated in a tirmidhi, a tirmidhi grades it as a hasan hadith, as a good hadith. But there are some problems with the chain of narration. However, the lesson beyond the weakness that might be in the chain of narration, the lesson from this is really a powerful lesson that Anas Ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is reported to have said, qala li RasoolAllahi Sallallahu alaihi wasallam, that the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said to me, ya bunayya inqadarta an tusbiha watumsia, laysa fee qalbika dhishun li ahad faf'al. Thumma qala li ya bunayya wadhalika min sunnati waman ahya sunnati faqad ahabbani waman ahabbani kana ma'i fil jannah. He says that the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said to me, oh my son, if you are capable, so again, just the nature of the delivery that this is the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam giving heartfelt advice to Anas Ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala anhu who he raised in his own home. Oh my son, if you are capable of waking up in the morning and ending the evening without any hatred in your heart for anyone, then do so. So he's telling Anas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, oh my dear son, look at how you wake up in the morning
and look at how you sleep at night if you can do so, removing all grudges from your heart when you wake up and when you sleep at night, then do so and then he says to me, oh my son, and this is from my sunnah, this is from my way and whoever revives my sunnah, then he has loved me and whoever has loved me will be with me in paradise. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us the companions of the Prophet peace be upon him in paradise. Allahumma ameen. So let's talk about this inshallah ta'ala. It's such a beautiful narration that we have to break it down from start to finish inshallah ta'ala. Number one, the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam speaking to him, giving him heartfelt advice. He loves him. He cares about him. And this is advice that has a certain level of seriousness to it. But this is life advice for your spirituality to excel in this life and in the hereafter bi'idhna alahi ta'ala. But the second part of this, when you wake up in the morning and when you sleep at night. Now subhanAllah, there are numerous narrations and stories about sleeping at night and making sure that you purify your heart when you sleep at night. But you know, this one actually mentions how you wake up as well. And if you realize in our deen, there is an emphasis always on the beginnings and on the endings, right? That you start your day right and you end your day right. There is athkar al sabah and athkar al masaa, the morning remembrances and the evening remembrances. There is what you say when you sleep, you know, and then what you say when you wake up. You go to sleep saying to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Bismika Allahumma amootu wa ahya. That in your name, oh Allah, I live and I die. And then you wake up in the morning, Alhamdulillah alladhi ahyana ba'dama matana wa layin nushoor. That all praises be to the one who gave us life after death and to him is the ultimate return. So you have the beginning, you have the end, you have the morning remembrance, you have the evening remembrance.
You have what should come to your heart and to your tongue as soon as you open your eyes and what should come to your heart and your tongue as soon as you close your eyes. So you wake up and you start the day right. You start your morning right by setting your priorities properly, by focusing your heart on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and removing anything that's going to be a distraction from having that focus on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then at night, you make it a point to actively remove grudges from your heart. The best way this can be achieved is to actually make dua for the person, to pray for the person and to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for forgiveness for them and goodness for them. So every morning and every night you actively purify your heart of those grudges. And then this part here, oh my son, this is from my sunnah. When you think about the sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam and all of the sunnah is blessed and all of the sunnah is relevant, none of it is to be discarded, not that which is major nor that which is minor. It is all the sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam. When you think about the sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, think about this being a part of his sunnah, removing grudges. And imagine what it was like for the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam to consistently over a course of 23 years, welcome people into his community that had done horrible things to him, right? Until the day of his death salallahu alayhi wa salam, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam was welcoming people into his ummah that had killed family members, that had run him out of Mecca, that had put him through all sorts of things, that had harmed him in so many different ways. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam is accepting their repentance and accepting them into the community and not mistreating them, nor reminding them of the harm that they committed against him. He has a heart to make dua for them, to pray for them, even in Uhud as they're knocking his teeth out, and he has a heart to not remind them.
You know, when you think about Yusuf alayhi wa salam, we talk about how the Quran was revealed to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam in stages, and the stories of the previous prophets, those long surahs, those long stories of the previous prophets were specifically revealed to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam to grant firmness and tranquility to his heart. In the midst of his hardest moments, like surah Yusuf, and when Yusuf alayhi wa salam says to his brothers, there is no blame upon you today, laa tathreeba alaykum alyawm. How did the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam settle that in his own heart to where he carried it to that momentous occasion of Fath Makkah, of the conquest of Mecca, where he could have held his brothers to account, he could have done to them what they did to him, but instead the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam repeats what his brother Yusuf repeated. It settled in his heart when he was still in Mecca being persecuted, it stayed with him when he returned to Mecca as well, and that's what he said, laa tathreeba alaykum alyawm, right? That there is no blame upon you today, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive you. It's powerful, right, that this is the sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, the people that tried to kill him, the people that killed his family members, the people that persecuted him, the people that caused him all sorts of hurt, people within the community that might have said things to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam and done things to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, and out of his mercy he did not retaliate or mention it to them, and he could have held it in his heart and maybe, you know, given a sharper khutbah or a harder task to those people in the community that gave him some harm, but the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam constantly lets it go. In fact, one of the miracles of the Quran and one of the proofs of its divine authorship is how after the slander of Aisha radiallahu ta'ala anha, if this was the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam authoring the Quran and not divine revelation, do you really think it would have been, وَلْيَعْفُوا وَلْيَصْفَحُوا أَلَا تُحِبُّونَ يَغْفِرَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ
forgive and show mercy, pardon, overlook those who have harmed the Messenger salallahu alayhi wa salam with this horrible slander, don't you want Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive you and show mercy to you? If this was a man alayhi salatu wa salam who was as they claim, authoring the Quran himself and doing it in accordance with his personal goals, wouldn't have been one of a vindictive nature of going after those that harmed him, rather it was forgiveness and pardoning and mercy. So you think of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam and this is his sunnah, right? This is certainly his sunnah of how he dealt with the people that harmed him in his own community before they came into the community and even those within the community afterwards, maybe unknowingly often and what they might have said or done to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, but he makes it a point alayhi salatu wa salam to remove anything from his heart against them. He does not want to meet them alayhi salatu wa salam with hard feelings, he doesn't even want members of his community to tell him things about other members of the community in a way that he might have hard feelings towards them alayhi salatu wa salam. He wants to have a heart that is always salim, that is always at peace with everyone that's around him. And he's making it a point to tell Anas radiallahu ta'ala anhu, this is my sunnah, this is how I am. I am not telling you to do something I don't do and no one has been harmed more than the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, called names, slandered, persecuted than him, yet still he finds it in his heart salallahu alayhi wa salam to always forgive people, to have the capacity to forgive them even to the moments of their death. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam had a heart that would have been willing to accept Abu Jahl, had Abu Jahl repented and turned back to Allah and sought forgiveness for everything he put the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam through.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam had the heart to not only forgive Ikramah ibn Abi Jahl, the son of the Pharaoh of this ummah, for what he had done himself and what his father had done, but he had the heart to even tell the Muslims to be sensitive to Ikramah by not mentioning his father in ways that are humiliating around him, not calling him Abu Jahl and calling him by name in front of Ikramah radiallahu ta'ala anhu in a way that would hurt his feelings. That was the heart of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam. That was not easy. That is part of the ingredients of his qiyam, of his praying at night and all of the things that we read about him alayhi salatu wa salam, standing in gratitude, weeping at night, prostrating at night, reciting the Quran at night in that solitude with his Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that's the sunnah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, not just something he tells us to do, something he had to do harder than anyone else. And then the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam says to him, Oh my son, that is my sunnah and whoever revives my sunnah, فقد أحبني قل إن كنتم تحبون الله فاتبعوني يحببكم الله ويغفر لكم ذنوبكم as Allah says in Surah Ali Imran, say if you truly love the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, then follow the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam and Allah will love you back. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is all forgiving and all merciful. So the love of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam is connected to the following of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam sunnah. May Allah allow us to adhere to his sunnah in every way. Allahumma ameen. And then he says, and whoever loves me shall be with me in paradise. What a great incentive subhanAllah that the closest to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam in Jannah are those who prostrate the most and prostration is the hallmark of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam's worship. Those that stay in a place of sujood. The closest to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam on the day of judgment are those that had the best character and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam
innama bu'ithtu bi utammim ma makarimal akhlaq wa innaka la'ala khuluqin a'dheem He was only sent to perfect our good character. And so we become more like him when we perfect our character. And the closest to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam on the day of judgment are those that adhere to his sunnah. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to adhere to his sunnah in the most holistic way. And the closest to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam on the day of judgment are those who send salawat on him most frequently. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barak ala abdika wa rasulika wa muhammadin salallahu alayhi wa salam May Allah send his peace and blessings upon him, his family, his companions and allow us to be joined with him in the highest level of Jannatul Firdaus. Allahumma ameen. Jazakum Allah Khayran. Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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